January 2010
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My daughters (ages 6 and 4) just informed me that ‘When we’re teenagers all we want to do is be cheerleaders.’ I had to inform them that we’d have to move back to America for that to happen, as there aren’t cheerleaders in New Zealand.
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floro-deactivated20110104-deact asked: im floro, im glad youre following me, but why? i do like your blog a lot. i want to spend an extended period of time (years) in new zealand but am from the usa. do you like it there? how hard was it to move?
Was driving my 17 year old nieces (identical twins, natch) around and Destiny’s Child’s Jumpin’ Jumpin’ came on the radio and they were all, “OMG! This so takes us back to primary school!!!” And I was all, “OMG, this so takes me back to when I was working at an internet start-up that went bust in 2001!!!”
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poobah:
Another phun phone phact — in New Zealand they answer the phone “Are you there?” At least they did when Billy lived there. —BP
This is no longer the case. Most people answer the phone with “Hello?”.
December 2009
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Oops. I had to tell Bic this morning that the Tooth Fairy took last night off to go to a New Year’s party. I had forgotten to switch out her tooth.